From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11689; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:03:14 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA11912 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:03:14 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (host31-68.pool80116.interbusiness.it [80.116.68.31]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA7A3C515013 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:03:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA0E27252 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:02:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3DCA3A51.8090009@baretta.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:02:57 +0100 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] LargeFile module References: <3DC9A182.40706@baretta.com> <3DCA1A3A.1010009@bik-gmbh.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Florian Hars wrote: > Alessandro Baretta wrote: > >> Does anybody know if the LargeFile module has compatibility issues >> with specific filesystems, namely FAT? > > > No, there cannot be any compatibility issue, since there cannot be any > large > files on a FAT filesystem in the first place. > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp > > > Yours, Florian. I haven't read the link you suggested, but I can assure you that I have a couple multigigabyte files on the dark side of my computer, and both Windows explorer and unix cp and tar fail to copy it elsewhere. I thought I might try writing my own cp in Ocaml with the LargeFile module. But you tell me that FAT is incapable of large files. Then, my attempt would be doomed to fail. Curiously enough, the video capture application that made those files in the first place and other video editing and playback applications are perfectly able to read and use those files. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners